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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 02:41 UTC

Tag: Soviet-Stalin Russia

  • Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 09:15 UTC

    The Great October Revolution

    Bolshevism ended horribly: first, civil war and famine, then three decades of lies, oppression and mass murder - Stalin, the Great Purge, the gulag

    By Gwynne Dyer - China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the October Revolution to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on 7 November, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

  • Saturday, May 3rd 2014 - 05:48 UTC

    President Putin re-editing Soviet-Stalin Russia calendar and traditions

    Putin awarded “Hero of Labor” medals in the Kremlin and is preparing a major military parade on 9 May

    Russia staged a huge May Day parade on Moscow's Red Square for the first time since the Soviet era with workers holding banners proclaiming support for President Vladimir Putin after the seizure of territory from neighboring Ukraine.